Industry use
Over the past 10 years Queensland has developed a substantial number of enterprises whose business is based on the manufacture, marketing and sales of products and services based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
These include:
- companies which design, manufacture and market products both to the Australian and international markets
- international companies which recognise the skills available in Queensland and have established regional headquarters to service Australian and Asia/Pacific markets
- Queensland companies which focus on the distribution of products which originate from interstate and overseas
- specialist consulting companies which provide services to the types of companies outlined above and to international clients.
A recent study into the local GNSS industry has found that Queensland has:
- an internationally significant concentration of precision GNSS machine control companies centred in south-east Queensland
- a nationally significant group of companies engaged in developing GNSS products and systems for vehicles
- strong GNSS and synergistic research capabilities
- an innovative GNSS user base.
In mid-2007 Queensland's first Satellite Navigation Industry Directory was released. The directory showcases Queensland's GNSS capabilities in industry, government and applied research. The Industry Directory is available at Queensland Satellite Navigation Industry Directory (PDF, 943K)*.
The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) is working with industry, research institutions and Australian State and Federal Government agencies to maximise the benefits of GNSS technologies to Queensland and Australia.
One significant area of collaboration for DERM is the positioning component of the AuScope project, aiming to provide a framework of permanent GNSS stations over the continent for scientific and research purposes.
Another is DERM's involvement in the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, where the department is leading a project looking into how precise positioning infrastructure such as permanent GNSS receivers can be deployed efficiently in rural and sparse areas.
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Last updated: 04 September 2009